A dead man in Naples / Michael Pearce.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa:Leicester : Thorpe, 2010.Edition: Large print edWhakaahuatanga: 328 p. (large print) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781444804843
- 1444804847
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tau tārua | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Large print | Stratford Large print | Large print | PEA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | 1 | Wātea | A00634542 |
1913. Junior British consular official Scampion arrives in sun-baked Naples - banished from Florence, following his involvement with D'Annunzio: poet, Nationalist and revolutionary. He brings the new craze sweeping Italy: bicycling. But walking home one day after a bicycle race, he's stabbed to death. Is Scampion's murder linked to the race? Neapolitans, being great gamblers, will bet on anything, including a bicycle race. And where there is gambling there is also the Camorra, the Neapolitan secret society. But the Foreign Office, with information that the murder might be linked to high politics in Rome, send their man Seymour to investigate...
Adult.
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